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David Birkin
Charade
Video Installation
Charade is a video by David Birkin filmed in collaboration with the human rights organisation Reprieve, together with over 50 actors and artists including Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Trevor Paglen, Peter Kennard, and Martha Rosler. The work is a response to a classified directive, issued by the Prime Minister, authorising British military intelligence agents to engage in undisclosed criminal activity. Civil liberties lawyers have speculated that this may provide legal protection for MI5 operatives carrying out extreme forms of interrogation, or committing violent acts while working undercover; yet its true purpose remains unknown. Birkin’s video uses gesture to reflect on questions of censorship, secrecy, and political voice, and to support Reprieve’s ongoing campaign to protect people of all nationalities from abuses of state power.
Presented by artist David Birkin in collaboration with Reprieve
www.davidbirkin.net/charade | www.reprieve.org.uk/charade
Instagram @_DavidBirkin | Twitter @_DavidBirkin | Twitter @Reprieve | Instagram @ReprieveHQ
VIEW ON MAPWhere
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT
Nearest tube:5 min walk from Waterloo Station
MBNA THAMES CLIPPERS
8pm–4am: bespoke Art Night service
Alight at London Eye (Waterloo) Pier
(8 minute walk)
Check back on 16 June to buy your ticket for the bespoke Art Night service and get 50% off in our Early Bird offer.
Time
6:00pm –2:00am
Extra info
Session running time: 8 mins on loop
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- Christopher Matthews Leake Street Tunnel 6pm –11pm
- Daata Editions BFI Southbank 6pm –2am
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- Gallery 46 Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf 6pm –12am
- Jane Bustin King George V Room, Marriott London County Hall 6pm –8pm
- Jeff Cain Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf 6pm –12am